Developing A New Tool with Fitbit for Simplified Type 2 Diabetes Management

Today we announced a partnership with Fitbit to integrate health and activity data into new CGM solutions for simplified type 2 diabetes management. This partnership brings together our sophisticated medical technology with the convenience of automatic activity tracking from Fitbit. Together we can provide meaningful insights into how exercise impacts glucose levels for more effective diabetes care management.

As you know, maintaining and tracking glucose levels are critical to effectively managing diabetes. For many people with type 2 diabetes, understanding how exercise affects glucose levels is a critical element to proper glucose management and long-term health. Additionally, many people are manually tracking and recording their physical activity, requiring them to recall and communicate that information to their physician from memory. As such, there is tremendous potential to use activity data captured by Fitbit’s leading wearable technology devices to provide actionable insights that paint a more accurate picture of how exercise frequency, intensity, and timing may impact a person’s blood glucose level.

Through this partnership, we are able to leverage Fitbit’s strong consumer brand to reach more people with type 2 diabetes with fitness tracker-based apps that are specifically designed to manage diabetes in a more proactive and engaging way.

This is an incredibly exciting partnership for Medtronic Diabetes that underscores our commitment to transform diabetes care together, for greater freedom and better health.

Vary interesting Idea. Unfortunately I can’t afford an iPhone , the CGM ( Insurance doesn’t Pay ) or the App. for the iPhone( I’m an Android user). Even so I think this will help many who have these product’s will greatly improve there Diabetic Management.

What about type 1 diabetics? I hate the sensor that i have to inject into my body every six days and knowing that it’s wrong 50% of the time doesn’t give me confidence to pay for the sensors. Seems that You could down something more for type 1’s that didnt have a choice in their diagnosis!

Hi Tracy. Fitbit devices do not conduct glucose monitoring for patients with diabetes. Medtronic makes a product called iPro2 Professional Continuous Glucose Monitoring device that a patient can wear for up to 6 days. It will record their glucose levels every 5 minutes during that period of wear and provide a report of the trends. This product is owned by healthcare professionals and must be initiated at your doctor’s office.

Once initiated, patients can use any of the Fitbit devices and link it to the iPro2 myLog app, an app that tracks daily events and activity to incorporate into the glucose report after the iPro2 evaluation is complete.